What others said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
On the Jews of al-Andalus, before naming their scholars who wrote in Arabic:
“Yet, contrary to what we would expect, the reach of Hebrew did not widen, because Jewish culture in those days owed its form to Arabic; or, to put it more plainly, the meaning is Jewish and the form is Arabic.”
Henri Pérès
1890–1983
French scholar of Arabic at the University of Algiers, author of La poésie andalouse en arabe classique au XIe siècle.
In Arabic
ولكن خلافاً لما ننتظره لم يتّسع نطاقُ اللغة العبريّة لأنّ الثقافة اليهوديّة في تلك الأيّام مَدِينةٌ للغة العربيّة من حيث المبنى، أو بعبارةٍ أوضح: فالمعنى يهوديٌّ والمبنى عربيّ.
Source
al-Lugha al-ʿarabiyya wa-sukkān al-Andalus fī al-qurūn al-wusṭā (lecture), Damascus: Majallat al-Majmaʿ al-ʿIlmī al-ʿArabī, vol. 19, part 9, 1944, p. 403
The English is ours, from the reported Arabic.
He gave the lecture at the Arab Academy in Damascus on 12 May 1944, and it was printed in Arabic in the Academy's journal; we found no published French original. The hamzas the print drops are restored; the English is ours.
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